A man is accused of killing his mother in Florida after she flew down to the state to check on him, with video and court records shedding light on the severity of the case.

Anthony Caruso, 40, stands charged with second-degree murder in the death of 67-year-old Elizabeth Caruso, jail records show. He is being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with no bond.

The case began midday on July 19, when Elizabeth Caruso flew from New Jersey to Miami Beach to conduct a welfare check on her son. In video released by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, the woman can be seen speaking to a clerk in the lobby of a hotel located directly across the street from where her son lived.

Hours later, she would be found dead, with her neck "severely injured nearly to the point of decap

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